Japan’s capital
Where tradition in Tokyo is still alive
Futuristic, shrill, strange? Beyond this cliché, photographer Richard Koek captures everyday life in Tokyo – his pictures tell of life in the metropolis.
When the photographer Richard Koek traveled to Tokyo for the first time, everything turned out differently than expected. “I expected to enter the future,” he says. “A perfected world full of high -tech and hustle and bustle. It also exists – but it is only a neckline. I noticed that everything I thought about the city came from cinema films and mass media. I put aside. “
The streets of the city led Koek to where people live. In houses with improvised power lines, for children’s gymnastics, in pasta kitchens and hairdressing salons. Sometimes, he says, people would have asked astonished why a photographer from abroad searched for scenes that seemed completely banal. “Then I knew that I was right. I don’t want to show the stranger what separates us – but what connects us.”
Source: Stern
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